Shovel Knight

Launch Trailer Digs Into Gameplay

Shovel Knight is finally arriving this week, and to celebrate, Yacht Club Games has released a launch trailer. After rocketing past its $75,000 Kickstarter goal in April 2013, Yacht Club has been hard at work finishing up the 8-bit nostalgia piece.

In his preview last year, Tim Turi described Shovel Knight as a “rock-solid hybrid of Capcom’s Duck Tales and Mega Man games.” You can see how true that is in the trailer below.

Hell, who needs Mega Man (or many of the old franchises people are clamoring for) when indie devs are churning out gems like this? I hope it makes its way to Xbox at some point.
On another note, game development is really effing expensive. Upwards of $75k to make an 8-bit side-scroller? Geez.

Dang, this game looks very impressive. A lot of love seemed to have been put into making it. A lot of sub-par indie games adopted an 8-bit artstyle to redeem themselves and prey off of our nostalgia, but this game looks like a competent and riveting throwback to the NES glory days. I know what I'll be downloading this Thursday...

It's nice to see some games finally coming out. I've been a bit worn out on games despite my sizable backlog (L.A. Noire, Far Cry 3, Just Cause 2 in particular), so hopefully this will reignite my interest.